O365

Office 365 – The self service migration tool from Office 365 Video to Microsoft Stream is available

As you may already know, the Office 365 Video service is being replaced by Microsoft Stream. If you have been using Office 365 Video to publish videos, you can now start migrating it to Microsoft Stream using the self-service migration tool. If you don’t see it, you can request to register your tenant using the […]

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Office 365 – You can now report service incident from the Service Health dashboard

The Office 365 administration portal (admin preview) has been updated to include a way to report service incident to Microsoft. If you are impacted by a service issue not yet reported you can submit an incident report. This feature is currently being deployed to targeted tenant (aka preview. To start using it, logon to your

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Skype for Business Online – External access settings being retired from the administration portal

As you may already know, it has been announced that Skype for Business Online will be retired from Office 365 on July 31, 2021. With this move, some administration capabilities are already being retired. The ‘External Access’ setting for Skype for Business in the Office 365 Administration portal, available in the ‘Settings\Services & add-ins\Skype for

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Office 365 – You can now set a time zone when opening a support request

This is a feature which should have been there since the beginning of Office 365; you can now define a time zone, as well as a secondary language, when you open a support request on Office 365. This does not seem to be a huge improvement but talk to people working in a multinational with

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Office 365 – It is now simpler to submit suspicious content to Microsoft for investigation

As you may already know, with Office 365 and Exchange Online you already had to the possibility to report suspicious content (in that case email) by using the Report Message add-in (an the other way around too if an email was identified as spam but was not). Well, now it is becoming simpler for Office

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Office 365 – Improved Office client activation is coming

In late August, a new and improved activation process for Office client (aka Office Pro Plus or Office Click to Run) will be deployed. This new process will simplify the activation by automatically using the user’s credential to perform the activation (if single sign-on is enabled). It will also simplify the process if you have

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Office 365 – Important change coming on July 5th for Federation Trust used by Exchange and the Federation Gateway

Kind of late notification about an important change taking place on July 5th, the certificates used by the Microsoft Federation Gateway are going to be replaced. If you are using Exchange 2013 SP1 or later, this change should not affect you as this part of the regular tasks executed by Exchange. However if you are

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Exchange Online – The new user experience in Outlook Web Access is becoming the default experience

As you may be aware a new Outlook Web Access (aka Outlook on the Web) user experience has been in preview for quite some time now; you were able to switch on and off this experience using the toggle ‘The new Outlook’ available at the top right side: Well, this new experience is now becoming

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Office 365 – Administration Role is going to be easier to manage

As you already know you can manage Office 365 Administration Role assignment from the Active User page. Well, if you are already using the new administration portal (in preview) you will be able to see a new blade in the left navigation pane called Roles which includes only one subsection Roles (maybe there are planning

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